Definition of Newspeak

Definition of Newspeak

1. Proper noun. The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc in the novel ''Nineteen Eighty-four'' (George Orwell, 1949). Designed to restrict the words, and hence the thoughts, of the citizens of ''Oceania''. ¹

Literary usage of Newspeak

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Asymmetric Marketing: Tossing the 'Chasm' in the Age of the Software Superpowers by Joseph E. Bentzel (2006)"18 Wikipedia, Newspeak < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak> "Newspeak ...
Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified ..."

2.Hope for South Africa? by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan (1991)"... prefabricated "newspeak" that had long since become dated in Eastern Europe.
In its international propaganda the SACP-ANC alliance lacked a clear line ..."

4.Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe by Bertram David Wolfe, Robert Hessen (1990)"But always his talk of peace and that of his successors has been double- talk,
Newspeak, semantic poison. The first to invent the term peaceful ..."

5.An Overview of Affirmative Action: Hearing Before the Committee on the edited by Hank Brown (1998)"So far from being "disadvantaged" are some of the recipients that the federal
government has had to resort to "Newspeak" in defining who is disadvantaged: ..."

6.The History of the Reign of George III, to the Termination of the Late War by Robert Bisset (1816)"They therefore Choice of« recommended Mr. Cornwall, as a gentleman in every other
re.newspeak- apect qualified for the speaker's chair, and also possessing ..."

7.The Legitimacy of International Organizations by Jean-Marc Coicaud (2001)"Firstly. some of the "worst excesses of democratic Newspeak." such as "people's
democracy" and "one-party democracy." have disappeared. as multi-party ..."